they will hurt our economy. they will add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment rolls. kniss is not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. >> reporter: you heard the big numbers. 1.2 trillion dollars in cuts over ten years. $85 billion this year. that's 13% cuts to defense, 9% to everything else. >> we're weeks away from the presidential sequester and the president laid out no plan toe eliminate the sequester and the harmful cuts that will come as a result of it. >> reporter: the forceful cuts were created during the debt ceiling debalk's, passed by congress and signed by the white house. a worst-case scenario that would be so bad it would force lawmakers to make a deal. now it's become a poison pill that the nation may have to swallow beginning march 1st, and if it happens, 70,000 children kicked off headstart programs, putting more than 14,000 teaching and staff jobs at risk. fewer inspections for things like horse meat in your burgers. cuts to mental health programs mean almost 400,000